Kitab-i-Aqdas
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Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: Bahá'u'lláh, Kitab-i-Aqdas, Haifa: Bahá'í World Centre, 1992, bahai-library.com.
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Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Bahá'u'lláh

Haifa: Bahá'í World Centre, 1992

Contents

Preface

Introduction

A Description of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Shoghi
Effendi

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Some Supplementary Texts

Questions and Answers

A Synopsis and Codification of the Laws and Ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Notes

Glossary

Key to Passages from the Aqdas Translated by Shoghi Effendi

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